COURSE
Massachusetts SEI Refresher
This self-paced course offers Massachusetts educators a practical, reflective refresher on sheltered English immersion (SEI). Anchored in the revised WIDA 2020 standards, participants will revisit essential SEI practices and explore strategies for creating inclusive, asset-based classrooms. The course focuses on supporting multilingual learners’ (MLs’) access to both content and community, with practical tools, reflection activities, and actionable next steps to strengthen shared responsibility for ML success.
TYPE
District Purchase
What Educators will Learn
Objectives
Define SEI and its role in inclusive, equitable classrooms.
Apply key components of the WIDA 2020 ELD Framework.
Recognize multilingual learners’ assets and needs.
Use sheltering strategies to support content and language development.
Reflect on their role in shared responsibility.
Key Outcomes
Feel more confident supporting MLs through content and language instruction.
Gain clarity about their role in ML success.
Identify practical next steps to enhance their SEI practice.
Recognize SEI as a shared responsibility across the school.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dana Gastich French
I have spent the past two decades in education, learning and serving as an ESL and bilingual teacher, instructional coach and district-level administrator. I am truly in my joy when working with educators to hone their craft! I believe that multilingualism is the gold standard for education. Multilingual learners are not students in need of fixing but rather they are a group of learners who are positioned to contribute greatly to society if our pedagogy, curricula and practices reflect a multilingual norm. By updating our practices to reflect a global society, we leverage the assets of MLLs, deepen learning and engagement for students and educators, and contribute to a greater humanity.
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